Question

I am trying to use streamwriter to create a text file in the my documents folder, however it thinks i am using a relative path when i am actually using a full path.

I am trying to create the file using this path: “%HOMEPATH%/My Documents/”, but it treats this as a relative path.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Answer 1

You should use Environment.GetFolderPath – which in this case would avoid you hard-coding My Documents at all:

string docs = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments);

If you wanted to get a directory name relative to that, you should use Path.Combine:

string fooDocsDirectory = Path.Combine(docs, "foo");